This document is the user manual for VMware Virtual Machine Importer. It describes how to install and use the VMware Virtual Machine Importer tool to import virtual machines from other virtualization platforms and convert them to a format compatible with VMware Server. The document provides instructions on installation, requirements, file formats supported, usage, log files, uninstalling and troubleshooting.
VMware Server provides a web-based management interface that allows administrators to control and monitor virtual machines. It also includes several command line tools for tasks like creating and managing virtual disks, controlling virtual machines, and network troubleshooting. The document provides tips on configuring remote access to virtual machines using protocols like VNC, best practices for backups, and securing the host and virtual machines through network segmentation and access controls. It also covers migrating physical and other virtual machines to VMware Server and using the product's features in automated scripts.
VMWare Studio is a free virtual appliance that allows users to author, configure, deploy and customize virtual machines, vApps, and virtual appliances. It provides templates for common configurations and allows customization of hardware, operating systems, applications, and output formats. The output can be single VMs or multi-VM vApps packaged in OVF format for deployment to vSphere or vCloud Director. The tool aims to simplify the process of creating and distributing virtual appliances.
Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008 provide virtualization capabilities for Microsoft. SCVMM 2008 allows for managing virtual machines across VMware and Hyper-V environments. It provides features like intelligent placement of VMs, conversion of physical to virtual machines, and delegated administration. SCVMM 2008 integrates with other System Center products and uses PowerShell for administration and monitoring of the virtualized environment.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on Citrix XenServer 5.0. It discusses the history and architecture of Xen and XenServer, how it provides hardware-assisted virtualization with low performance overhead. It also compares XenServer to other virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
This document provides instructions for installing various guest operating systems in VMware virtual machines. It gives guidelines for supported operating systems, memory settings, sound and networking configuration. Specific installation notes are included for Windows, Linux, UNIX and DOS operating systems. The document also provides information on where to find the latest VMware tools for each guest.
"Mastering VMware Snapshot" offers a comprehensive understanding of VMware snapshots which includes lot of tips and tricks related to the VMware Snapshot. This books enable the reader to gain deep understanding of VMware Snapshots with different detailed information about the various snapshot related files and snapshot operations such as deleting snapshot, reverting snapshot and snapshot consolidation. It also focuses on how to manage Snapshots from command line and changes made to the snapshot algorithm on vSphere 6.0 and vSphere 6.5
http://www.vmwarearena.com
The document provides instructions for building Hadoop on Windows, including prerequisites, requirements, and steps to correctly set up the environment and build Hadoop distributions with native code. Key requirements include Java, Maven, specific versions of other libraries like Protocol Buffers and CMake, Microsoft Windows SDK, Visual Studio, and Unix command line tools. Environment variables like JAVA_HOME, Platform, and PATH need to be set correctly. The build may fail with errors related to missing components like CMake, Protocol Buffers, or due to incorrect environment variables, but following the listed solutions should resolve the issues.
The document discusses automation of VMware environments at Newmarket International, a company with 20,000 users relying on a critical application suite. Key points:
- Newmarket implemented complete redundancy across primary and secondary sites using storage-based replication between IBM DS4700 arrays and custom scripts to re-register VMs after failover.
- Automation tools included Windows PowerShell, VIMA, Perl scripts, cluster services, and hardware features.
- Tasks automated included installation, configuration, upgrades, disaster recovery, and management.
- Issues addressed were automating DR without SRM, detecting PCI device configurations, handling VMDK files on different LUNs, and tiered network architectures.
VMware Server provides a web-based management interface that allows administrators to control and monitor virtual machines. It also includes several command line tools for tasks like creating and managing virtual disks, controlling virtual machines, and network troubleshooting. The document provides tips on configuring remote access to virtual machines using protocols like VNC, best practices for backups, and securing the host and virtual machines through network segmentation and access controls. It also covers migrating physical and other virtual machines to VMware Server and using the product's features in automated scripts.
VMWare Studio is a free virtual appliance that allows users to author, configure, deploy and customize virtual machines, vApps, and virtual appliances. It provides templates for common configurations and allows customization of hardware, operating systems, applications, and output formats. The output can be single VMs or multi-VM vApps packaged in OVF format for deployment to vSphere or vCloud Director. The tool aims to simplify the process of creating and distributing virtual appliances.
Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008 provide virtualization capabilities for Microsoft. SCVMM 2008 allows for managing virtual machines across VMware and Hyper-V environments. It provides features like intelligent placement of VMs, conversion of physical to virtual machines, and delegated administration. SCVMM 2008 integrates with other System Center products and uses PowerShell for administration and monitoring of the virtualized environment.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on Citrix XenServer 5.0. It discusses the history and architecture of Xen and XenServer, how it provides hardware-assisted virtualization with low performance overhead. It also compares XenServer to other virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
This document provides instructions for installing various guest operating systems in VMware virtual machines. It gives guidelines for supported operating systems, memory settings, sound and networking configuration. Specific installation notes are included for Windows, Linux, UNIX and DOS operating systems. The document also provides information on where to find the latest VMware tools for each guest.
"Mastering VMware Snapshot" offers a comprehensive understanding of VMware snapshots which includes lot of tips and tricks related to the VMware Snapshot. This books enable the reader to gain deep understanding of VMware Snapshots with different detailed information about the various snapshot related files and snapshot operations such as deleting snapshot, reverting snapshot and snapshot consolidation. It also focuses on how to manage Snapshots from command line and changes made to the snapshot algorithm on vSphere 6.0 and vSphere 6.5
http://www.vmwarearena.com
The document provides instructions for building Hadoop on Windows, including prerequisites, requirements, and steps to correctly set up the environment and build Hadoop distributions with native code. Key requirements include Java, Maven, specific versions of other libraries like Protocol Buffers and CMake, Microsoft Windows SDK, Visual Studio, and Unix command line tools. Environment variables like JAVA_HOME, Platform, and PATH need to be set correctly. The build may fail with errors related to missing components like CMake, Protocol Buffers, or due to incorrect environment variables, but following the listed solutions should resolve the issues.
The document discusses automation of VMware environments at Newmarket International, a company with 20,000 users relying on a critical application suite. Key points:
- Newmarket implemented complete redundancy across primary and secondary sites using storage-based replication between IBM DS4700 arrays and custom scripts to re-register VMs after failover.
- Automation tools included Windows PowerShell, VIMA, Perl scripts, cluster services, and hardware features.
- Tasks automated included installation, configuration, upgrades, disaster recovery, and management.
- Issues addressed were automating DR without SRM, detecting PCI device configurations, handling VMDK files on different LUNs, and tiered network architectures.
VMware Server provides tools for remotely managing and connecting to virtual machines. The VMware Management Interface allows controlling and monitoring virtual machines through a web interface. The vmrun tool can automate tasks like taking snapshots. Configuring VNC access in the .vmx file allows remote connections using a VNC client. Security best practices include only using RDP for Windows guests and the VMware Virtual Connector for more secure remote access.
Lessons Learned in Automating Compliance for ContainersAll Things Open
This document discusses open source software compliance for containers. It explains that container images are made up of layered filesystems, so the dependencies and licenses of each layer need to be determined. However, determining this information can be challenging as Dockerfiles and container build processes do not always provide full transparency. The document introduces the Tern tool, which aims to automate open source software compliance for containers by analyzing package managers, files, and layers to provide package versions, licenses, and software sources used.
The document provides tips and techniques for optimizing performance of virtual machines when using various virtualization platforms like VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual Server, and ESX Server. It discusses best practices for configuring hardware, storage, networking and guest operating systems to maximize efficiency and minimize resource usage of virtual machines. General recommendations include adding RAM and CPUs, using solid state drives, installing VMware Tools/Virtual Machine Additions, and defragmenting disks.
Building enterprise class disaster recovery as a service to aws - session spo...Amazon Web Services
This document discusses Zerto's disaster recovery solution that provides enterprise-class virtual replication and recovery from VMware and Hyper-V virtualized datacenters to AWS. It highlights how Zerto revolutionized disaster recovery with hypervisor-based replication that is software-defined, simple, scalable and provides visibility, recovery and assurance. The document also outlines how Zerto's disaster recovery as a service to AWS provides significant cost savings over on-premise solutions and flexible, scalable performance with low operational costs.
The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine that allows administrators to remotely manage ESXi and vCenter Server systems through scripts and agents without repeated authentication. It includes tools like the vSphere CLI and SDK for Perl and supports collecting and storing logs from managed systems. vMA can help port existing service console scripts to a centralized platform and supports both single and multiple system targets.
Get started with Vagrant! This basic intro assumes no prior knowledge of the platform, and it is universally applicable regardless of the Provider (hypervisor\cloud platform) that you are using.
We also delve briefly into provisioners (ex: Shell, Puppet, Chef) to unlock the true power of Vagrant: quick & easy templates of production systems.
Vagrant allows users to easily create and configure virtual development environments. The document outlines a 5 step process to get started with Vagrant: 1) select a virtualization provider like VirtualBox, 2) install Vagrant, 3) download a virtual machine image or "box", 4) initialize and start the VM with Vagrant commands, and 5) log into the VM via SSH. It also discusses additional features like version controlling Vagrant files, customizing the VM, using multiple VMs, and provisioning VMs with tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
The document provides an overview and details of NetApp's Virtual Storage Console 7.1, including:
- The unified appliance consolidates VSC, VASA, and SRA software for VMware for simple deployment and management.
- VSC 7.1 includes new performance dashboards, reporting improvements, and fixes several issues from prior versions. The VASA provider supports VVol 2.0 APIs and VM/VVol QoS. Storage Replication Adapter is also included in the release.
- Requirements for the VASA provider dashboard include having OnCommand API Services 2.1RC1 installed on a separate Linux host dedicated to the VASA provider.
- New features, fixes
This document provides a summary of commands and configuration files for managing VMware ESX servers. It lists esxcfg commands for configuring services, hardware, and storage. It also lists vmware commands for virtual machines, debugging, and the web interface. Configuration files and log files are documented. The document is intended as a quick reference for administrators of ESX servers.
This document discusses Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. It provides an overview of BOSH (Building Cloud Foundry), which is a tool used to release engineer and deploy Cloud Foundry. It describes key BOSH concepts like packages, jobs, releases, stemcells, and deployments. It also discusses how BOSH uses Cloud Provider Interfaces (CPIs) like OpenStack to provide infrastructure portability and deployment capabilities across different cloud platforms.
This talk covers VMware's K8S Solutions. VMware offers Essential PKS for customized K8S requirement, Enterprise PKS for enterprise IT, and Cloud PKS for those who only wants to consume K8S.
The document discusses using Vagrant and cloud platforms like GCP to develop and deploy applications from development to production. It introduces Vagrant as a tool for setting up and managing development environments and shows how to use Vagrant with FreeBSD. It then demonstrates provisioning a FreeBSD VM on GCP and discusses identity and access management on the cloud platform. The document aims to provide an overview of using Vagrant for development and cloud platforms like GCP for production deployments.
Building your own Desktop Cloud EnvironmentJnaapti
As developers we have seen these problems:
Our development environments accumulate lots of applications and libraries over a period of months.
We are usually in the habit of installing everything in one machine.
We fear that we may screw up our development environment and that means unproductive man-hours.
We forget that a multi-machine deployment is different from a single machine deployment.
How about virtualization in the desktop?
In this demo, I will take you through the steps to create a multi-VM development environment.
This demo will make use of QEMU, KVM and Virt Manager and show you how you can create a VM image, and then start servers with a set of commands, deploy your app, test everything and tear down the environment once you are happy - all this in the cosy comforts of your laptop or desktop.
The Jnaapti development environment is based on this setup.
The document discusses a performance monitoring and diagnostics tool for Java applications running on Apache Tomcat. It can help identify which applications are slow, which parts of an application are slow, if problems are isolated to one server or affecting all users, and if the database is a bottleneck. The tool also helps locate which parts of code are causing latency.
The document discusses Citrix XenServer 5.0. It provides an overview of virtualization concepts, the XenServer architecture, storage management using XenServer APIs, resource pools, high availability features, and management architectures compared to competitors. XenServer provides a clustered management layer, built-in replication, and various high availability levels including zero downtime for any or I/O failures.
This document provides an overview of using Vagrant and Phing for a cmartbooks project. It lists basic Vagrant commands like vagrant up, vagrant provision, and vagrant destroy. It then describes installing the cmartbooks-ci project with Vagrant and provisioning it. Next, it explains using Phing commands like phing cm-up within the vagrant ssh session to prepare the project. Benefits of this approach are an equal development environment for all, easy configuration sharing, and faster Drupal with Phing and Linux.
This is the document which explain the step by step procedure to upgrade PowerVC from 1.3.0.2 to 1.3.2.0. I've added useful information in the documents.
VMware Server provides tools for remotely managing and connecting to virtual machines. The VMware Management Interface allows controlling and monitoring virtual machines through a web interface. The vmrun tool can automate tasks like taking snapshots. Configuring VNC access in the .vmx file allows remote connections using a VNC client. Security best practices include only using RDP for Windows guests and the VMware Virtual Connector for more secure remote access.
Lessons Learned in Automating Compliance for ContainersAll Things Open
This document discusses open source software compliance for containers. It explains that container images are made up of layered filesystems, so the dependencies and licenses of each layer need to be determined. However, determining this information can be challenging as Dockerfiles and container build processes do not always provide full transparency. The document introduces the Tern tool, which aims to automate open source software compliance for containers by analyzing package managers, files, and layers to provide package versions, licenses, and software sources used.
The document provides tips and techniques for optimizing performance of virtual machines when using various virtualization platforms like VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual Server, and ESX Server. It discusses best practices for configuring hardware, storage, networking and guest operating systems to maximize efficiency and minimize resource usage of virtual machines. General recommendations include adding RAM and CPUs, using solid state drives, installing VMware Tools/Virtual Machine Additions, and defragmenting disks.
Building enterprise class disaster recovery as a service to aws - session spo...Amazon Web Services
This document discusses Zerto's disaster recovery solution that provides enterprise-class virtual replication and recovery from VMware and Hyper-V virtualized datacenters to AWS. It highlights how Zerto revolutionized disaster recovery with hypervisor-based replication that is software-defined, simple, scalable and provides visibility, recovery and assurance. The document also outlines how Zerto's disaster recovery as a service to AWS provides significant cost savings over on-premise solutions and flexible, scalable performance with low operational costs.
The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine that allows administrators to remotely manage ESXi and vCenter Server systems through scripts and agents without repeated authentication. It includes tools like the vSphere CLI and SDK for Perl and supports collecting and storing logs from managed systems. vMA can help port existing service console scripts to a centralized platform and supports both single and multiple system targets.
Get started with Vagrant! This basic intro assumes no prior knowledge of the platform, and it is universally applicable regardless of the Provider (hypervisor\cloud platform) that you are using.
We also delve briefly into provisioners (ex: Shell, Puppet, Chef) to unlock the true power of Vagrant: quick & easy templates of production systems.
Vagrant allows users to easily create and configure virtual development environments. The document outlines a 5 step process to get started with Vagrant: 1) select a virtualization provider like VirtualBox, 2) install Vagrant, 3) download a virtual machine image or "box", 4) initialize and start the VM with Vagrant commands, and 5) log into the VM via SSH. It also discusses additional features like version controlling Vagrant files, customizing the VM, using multiple VMs, and provisioning VMs with tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
The document provides an overview and details of NetApp's Virtual Storage Console 7.1, including:
- The unified appliance consolidates VSC, VASA, and SRA software for VMware for simple deployment and management.
- VSC 7.1 includes new performance dashboards, reporting improvements, and fixes several issues from prior versions. The VASA provider supports VVol 2.0 APIs and VM/VVol QoS. Storage Replication Adapter is also included in the release.
- Requirements for the VASA provider dashboard include having OnCommand API Services 2.1RC1 installed on a separate Linux host dedicated to the VASA provider.
- New features, fixes
This document provides a summary of commands and configuration files for managing VMware ESX servers. It lists esxcfg commands for configuring services, hardware, and storage. It also lists vmware commands for virtual machines, debugging, and the web interface. Configuration files and log files are documented. The document is intended as a quick reference for administrators of ESX servers.
This document discusses Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. It provides an overview of BOSH (Building Cloud Foundry), which is a tool used to release engineer and deploy Cloud Foundry. It describes key BOSH concepts like packages, jobs, releases, stemcells, and deployments. It also discusses how BOSH uses Cloud Provider Interfaces (CPIs) like OpenStack to provide infrastructure portability and deployment capabilities across different cloud platforms.
This talk covers VMware's K8S Solutions. VMware offers Essential PKS for customized K8S requirement, Enterprise PKS for enterprise IT, and Cloud PKS for those who only wants to consume K8S.
The document discusses using Vagrant and cloud platforms like GCP to develop and deploy applications from development to production. It introduces Vagrant as a tool for setting up and managing development environments and shows how to use Vagrant with FreeBSD. It then demonstrates provisioning a FreeBSD VM on GCP and discusses identity and access management on the cloud platform. The document aims to provide an overview of using Vagrant for development and cloud platforms like GCP for production deployments.
Building your own Desktop Cloud EnvironmentJnaapti
As developers we have seen these problems:
Our development environments accumulate lots of applications and libraries over a period of months.
We are usually in the habit of installing everything in one machine.
We fear that we may screw up our development environment and that means unproductive man-hours.
We forget that a multi-machine deployment is different from a single machine deployment.
How about virtualization in the desktop?
In this demo, I will take you through the steps to create a multi-VM development environment.
This demo will make use of QEMU, KVM and Virt Manager and show you how you can create a VM image, and then start servers with a set of commands, deploy your app, test everything and tear down the environment once you are happy - all this in the cosy comforts of your laptop or desktop.
The Jnaapti development environment is based on this setup.
The document discusses a performance monitoring and diagnostics tool for Java applications running on Apache Tomcat. It can help identify which applications are slow, which parts of an application are slow, if problems are isolated to one server or affecting all users, and if the database is a bottleneck. The tool also helps locate which parts of code are causing latency.
The document discusses Citrix XenServer 5.0. It provides an overview of virtualization concepts, the XenServer architecture, storage management using XenServer APIs, resource pools, high availability features, and management architectures compared to competitors. XenServer provides a clustered management layer, built-in replication, and various high availability levels including zero downtime for any or I/O failures.
This document provides an overview of using Vagrant and Phing for a cmartbooks project. It lists basic Vagrant commands like vagrant up, vagrant provision, and vagrant destroy. It then describes installing the cmartbooks-ci project with Vagrant and provisioning it. Next, it explains using Phing commands like phing cm-up within the vagrant ssh session to prepare the project. Benefits of this approach are an equal development environment for all, easy configuration sharing, and faster Drupal with Phing and Linux.
This is the document which explain the step by step procedure to upgrade PowerVC from 1.3.0.2 to 1.3.2.0. I've added useful information in the documents.
30. http://www.vmware.com/support/services
http://www.vmware.com/requestsupport
C:
cd¥Program Files¥VMware¥VMware Server
cd
cscript vm-support.vbs
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52. inetd
su -
rpm -Uhv VMware-server-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
VMware-server-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
<xxxx>
/tmp
cp VMware-server-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp <xxxx>
cd /tmp
tar zxf VMware-server-<xxxx>.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
init init
vmware-config.pl
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53. lspci
/usr/bin/lspcidrake
vmware-config.pl
Do you
accept
Do you want networking for your
virtual machines?
Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines?
Do you want this script to probe for an unused private subnet?
Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual
machines?
Do you want this script to probe for an unused private subnet?
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54. ideafarm-chat
/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines
exit
libdb.so.3
Couldn't find necessary components on your system. It appears that you are missing
the following library: libdb.so.3.
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55. compat-db-<#>.<#>.<##>-<#>.i386.rpm libdb#.deb RPM
<#>
/etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start
libdb.so.3
su -
/tmp
cp VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp
<xxxx>
cd /tmp
tar zxf VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz
<xxxx>
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56. cd vmware-mui-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
init init
vmware-config-mui.pl
exit
libxpm.so.4
gcc
gcc
YAST2
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61. su -
/tmp
unzip VMware-server-linux-client-<xxxx>.zip -d
/tmp
<xxxx>
/tmp
cd /tmp
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62. rpm -Uhv VMware-server-console-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
<xxxx>
tar zxf VMware-server-console-<xxxx>.tar.gz
<xxxx>
vmware-server-console-distrib
cd vmware-server-console-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Do you accept ... <Q>
vmware-config-console.pl
What port do you want the remote console to use to connect to server. [902]
exit
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65. MiniMUI SampleScripts
MiniMUI
SampleScripts
SampleScripts
SampleScripts
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66. su -
tar zxf VMware-VmPerlAPI-<xxxx>.tar.gz
<xxxx>
cd vmware-api-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Do you accept?
<Q>
/usr/bin
/usr/lib/vmware-api
SampleScripts
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110. eventlog.win.message=FALSE
eventlog.win.register=FALSE
.vmx
C:¥Documents and Settings¥All Users¥Application Data¥VMware¥VMware Server
VMware Server config.ini
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